Florida Inmates Crave Honey Buns; Orlando Sentinel Examines Why

Jan 14, 2011

Inmates in the Florida prison system buy 270,000 honey buns a month. Across the state, they sell more than tobacco, envelopes and cans of Coke, according to The Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Fla, which investigates why this is so.

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This story on the popularity of honey buns among prisoners has lots of interesting information. Inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women used honey buns as the base for a Christmas apple pie. Inmates at the Robeson County Jail in Lumberton, N.C., mixed in honey buns to sweeten a wine they fermented from orange juice. During his two-month stay in an Illinois jail cell, NFL defensive tackle Tank Johnson gulped down, after hearty meals of beef sticks and summer sausages, 40 honey buns for dessert. 01-14-11 Elliot Maras